Nodebuster
BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.83/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 14,153
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.6h
- To 100%
- 4.1h 1.1x the story
- Achievements
- 13
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $1.94 June 2025
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 12 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 78% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
99% start to 76% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 10 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cookie Clicker ($4.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Lyca ($4.99, scores 62).
The math says it holds its tier up to $11.10.
More about Nodebuster
3 of the 655 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 398 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.94 (35% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Eh. It starts out pretty fun, but becomes a full-time idle game when you can only get "netcoins" to progress. To get those... yeah, you have to wait. That's it. Pretty boring at that point and completely breaks the game IMHO. I'd say it's ok. Definitely nowhere near what it needs to be for these glowing reviews though...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Vulkan 1.0, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nodebuster scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3107330/nodebusterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.